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My hen became broody two to three days ago. I tried kicking her off the nest but she bit me. Their coop is full of shavings right now and I don't have time to clean it and put the dog cage inside. I read that it's better for her to get more light anyway so I put the dog cage on cinder blocks and...

Two days ago, my almost 3-year-old RIR was sitting in the nest for 20 hours. I thought she was egg bound so I gave her two 600mg calcium tablets. I was getting ready to give her an Epsom salt bath but I saw that she got up out of her nest and started walking around, eating and acting normal. I...

My hen has been in the same spot since I put her to bed last night, so it's been about 15 hours. I think she's struggling with laying an egg. I can see her vent breathing a bit heavy, like she's trying to push an egg out. She's also making a trilling noise. She did the same thing this time last...

I had this container around my chickens but it was on something high they can't reach. It had been sitting collecting rain water for about two weeks and I found this worm today. What is this? Should I be concerned my chickens may have worms? I did worm them a few weeks ago already.

My 2.5 y/o RIR hen has sour crop this morning, I think. I found a pile of liquid in their coop and when she came out her tail was droopy and she had her head down. She also seemed tired and not eating. The first thing I thought when I saw her was that her crop looked like it didn't empty. I...

I had a flock of 4 chicks hatch this summer and unfortunately two of them got eaten by rats. The remaining two is one hen and one roo. Both are 3/4 cream leg bar and 1/4 Rhode Island red. They're really shy but pretty sweet and are inseparable. We already have a rooster and can't keep another...

Two months ago I asked about my 2.5-year-old RIR because she was walking a little funny, slouching with each step. I got some advice to give her calcium and she seemed fine the next day. They all just went through a molt recently. I switched the feed to a chick starter because of this. I don't...

We've been using this doghouse as a coop for the last two years and this is the first time I'm seeing the bottom of the inside walls getting wet. It is currently on the ground. Maybe this year is more wet than usual? I attached hardware cloth all around and attached a run to it. If possible I...

We had a clutch of 4 eggs hatch, 3 pullets and 1 cockerel. Unfortunately, rats ate two of the pullets, so it's just one pullet and one cockerel, both 9 weeks old now. We already have a rooster and can't keep any more young roosters. The cockerel's breed is also known to be especially noisy, so...

Are rats or mice living in this container? I know we have a rat problem but I don't understand why they would live in this.... Should I turn it out and see if my chickens want some yummy live snacks?

I've never seen this before. Sammy is a RIR and a little over two years old. I haven't seen her lay an egg for a few weeks. If she has she's hiding them somewhere. Today I watched her crouch down as she's walking like she's waiting for a rooster to mount her. If she's egg bound should I wait...

I'm trying to keep mice and rats out so I thought 1/4" would be better than 1/2" but as I'm reading around the forum, I'm learning that 1/2" is actually stronger. I did not know that. I already ordered two rolls of hardware cloth and they're on their way. One is 1/4" 36" x 100' 23 gauge, and the...

I posted here recently about a bad rat problem I'm having. It took me a few days to process what to do and come up with a plan but here it is: Step 1 - secure chickens From the advice of another member here I'm going to apply hardware cloth to the walls and floor of my coop and cover the floor...

My brother built an 8'x10' coop for the chickens but didn't rat proof the bottom. My dad then put wood flooring but there are cracks and rats can get in. There are also rat nests below their coop. I do have some hardware cloth but I'm not sure how I would even rat proof it now that it's already...

We let our chickens free range in the day time and they sleep in the coop at night. It is not predator proof. Even though they have a floor, there are rat nests under them. We have another coop and there's also a rat nest under that. Things were fine for a while, I suspected they were eating...

I helped hatch these two chicks and called them my miracle chicks because they were from a late hatch and I was ready to throw out the eggs until I saw movement and heard chirping. I was the first one they saw when they hatched. I tried giving them a mama, one of the hens who sat on their eggs...

I got this poor girl from a family friend when she was a year old. My mom wanted to slaughter her but I couldn't let her do it. She was still laying eggs for a bit but stopped this summer. I think she had curled toes when she was a chick and it wasn't fixed so she suffered a poor posture and...

Both are about three weeks old. Breed is RIR with maybe 25%-50% cream legbar. The comb color makes me think pullet but I've seen them fight a bit already and the darker one was really friendly when he/she hatched.

I went on vacation ten days ago and these two young chicks were still with their mama then. I just got back today and was shocked to see their mama had already abandoned them. I felt bad for those poor babies trying to snuggle with her but she just pecked them away. They're getting ready to...

My brother's girlfriend's mom has a couple of chickens that lay eggs and I'm pretty sure they don't get calcium. Is it possible for them to still lay eggs or is it just not that good for them if they don't get calcium? I'm just asking because I'm gone for ten days and I realized I forgot to...